Latvia’s Culture Minister Pushes to Rename Soviet-Era Streets and Towns
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Latvia’s Culture Minister Pushes to Rename Soviet-Era Streets and Towns
Latvia’s Minister of Culture, Nauris Puntulis, is urging the Saeima, the country’s parliament, to revive legislation on renaming streets and populated areas whose names date back to the Soviet occupation, according to ministerial adviser Agnese Vārpiņa, cited by the LETA news agency on August 10. Efforts to remove Soviet-era place names come amid a wider push by the Baltic states to counter lingering Russian influence. Latvia’s 2023 National Sec…
The Minister of Culture of Latvia, Nauris Puntulis, called on the parliament to return to the consideration of the draft law on the renaming of streets and settlements whose names are associated with the Soviet occupation and Russification. August 10, 2026
The master of the culture of Latvia, Naurius Puntulís, is to turn the Seimas into a day's law on the renaming of the streets of the inhabitants of the land, and the Yak'i called it a joyous payback.
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